the reality then was that it was a hum population of -- huge population of latinos in florida, california, utah that made a difference in the elections. the more and more republicans that have latino constituents saying and pushing on immigration reform, the more you see people like denham and others coming out and saying i want to do this because my constituents are asking me. >> these are the republicans signing on to the democratic house version. >> i foresee we'll get a lot more. there is about 11 to 12 republicans whose feats are potentially can be taken out because latinos will vote and say, "hey, you are not voting on issues that i care about, which is immigration. >> when you talk about speaking with legislators, members of congress, you talk about giving them political cover. what does that mean. >> we tried to make it as easy as possible for them to take the side of the issue that we are on. we are talking about political cover. we say, "you don't have to lead out, we'll lead out, showing you that there is broad support for comprehensive immigration reform", we had a number of b